Reza Pahlavi, Iranian Democracy Campaigners Convene in Online Conference
By Hamed Mohammadi and Elahe Boghrat
Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and several political activists, pro-democracy campaigners, and rights advocates in Iran and abroad took part in an online conference titled “No to the Islamic...
ANALYSIS: How Iranian Protesters Unmasked The Regime’s Old Game Of Divide And Rule’
By Elahe Boghrat
In Iran, after decades of organized social segregation and the Islamic Republic's exclusion of the vast majority of Iranians in favor of a small minority of devotees, a nation has now risen...
OPINION: Centenary of Shah and Twin Sister Ashraf Reminds Iran of Its Past
By Elahe Boghrat
October 26 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of royal twins the late Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and his sister Princess Ashraf.
There is a wealth of information about their lives from...
OPINION: Iran’s ‘Final Battle’ Rests In the Hands of the Shah and the Nation
By Elahe Boghrat
(The following piece was written by Elahe Boghrat, Editor-in-Chief of Kayhan London, the Persian-language sister publication of Kayhan Life. The view expressed are her own.)
What follows are recurring reflections on a moment...
EDITORIAL: Does Reporting On Events in Iran Violate Instagram Rules?
By Elahe Boghrat
Kayhan London, which began operations in June 1984 in the United Kingdom, is a member of the Kayhan Publishing group, founded by the late Dr. Mostafa Mesbahzadeh in 1942 in Tehran. It...
COMMENTARY: Women in the Islamic Republic Are Second-Class Citizens
By Azadeh Karimi and Elahe Boghrat
The Iranian media have reported on the suspicious death of Zahra Navidpour, a 28-year-old woman whose body was discovered on January 6 at her mother’s home in the northwestern...
OPINION: Analyzing Surveys of Iranians on Social Media
By Elahe Boghrat
Editor-in-Chief, Kayhan London
The interconnected global technological environment, better known as cyberspace, provides a viable vehicle for the computer-literate and educated segments of society to express their social, political and cultural views, particularly...
OPINION: War Will Bolster, Not Bring Down, the Islamic Republic
By Elahe Boghrat
Since the publication of its first issue in exile in 1983, Kayhan London has consistently opposed the Islamic Republic. The paper was also against the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88). The unwavering opposition to...
OPINION: Iranians Want Change, But What Direction Will the Country Take?
By Elahe Boghrat
Many Iranians believed that their country would enter a new era of reconstruction after the turbulent events of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and an eight-year war with Iraq (1980-88) that cost so...
OPINION: Why Prince Reza Pahlavi Represents Hope for Many Young Iranians
By Elahe Boghrat
In February 1979, when the Islamic Revolution overthrew the monarchy in Iran, 18-year-old Crown Prince Reza, the heir to the Pahlavi throne, had finished high school and was undergoing military training as...
